US ‘Surging’ 50 Disease Control Specialists to West Africa

The United States is sending at least 50 disease-control specialists to West Africa to help find, respond to and stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, which has claimed more than 700 lives. An American health care worker, who contracted the disease in Liberia, is expected to return to the United States Tuesday, following the return of an infected American doctor August 2. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tom Frieden, told US broadcast...

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